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Pareiorhaphis stomias (Pereira & Reis, 2002)

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Description: Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal soft rays: 5. Anal fin with 4 branched rays; dorsal surface of body and head covered by distinct black dots; low caudal peduncle 9.7-11.3% SL; 94-120 teeth in each dentary. Mature males possess the remarkable morphological modifications already known to occur in other Pareiorhaphis species, a skin fold on the dorsal surface of the unbranched pelvic-fin ray, a thickened pectoral-fin spine, fleshy lobes on the lateral margins of head, and hypertrophied odontodes emerging from those fleshy lobes and on the pectoral-fin rays. Sexual Differences: When compared to males, females posses an enlarged, swollen urogenital opening, while males have a small and pointed urogenital papilla. Aquarium Care: Will need a good water flow in the aquarium as found under rocks in fast flowing waters.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Hemipsilichthys stomias

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Ararangua and Tubarão River basins, Brazil. Type locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina: Treviso: rio Mãe Luzia at Forquilha, 28º27'66"S 49º30'06"W.

Size:

5.0cm. (2ins)

Temp:

23-27°c (73-81°f)

p.H.

6.0-7.5.

Reference:

Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2016. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 10/2016 ).
Pereira, E.H. and R.E. Reis, 2002. Revision of the loricariid genera Hemipsilichthys and Isbrueckerichthys (Teleostei: Siluriformes), with descriptions of five new species of Hemipsilichthys. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 13(2):97-146.

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Pareiorhaphis stomias
Dorsal view

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